Theme : mobilephones
- Upwardly Mobile Next week we'll mainly be doing mobile phones. We'll be launching London Calling: How mobile technologies will transform our capital city in erm.. London on Monday 20th October - a few places still available so email if you'd like to come. Then I'll be the support act to Will Davies of the Work Foundation at a talk at the RSA on Wednesday 22 October about how and why we communicate. My bit will focus on what mobile brings to the mix. from : paulmiller 13th October 2003
- Texting to a higher plane [from John Thackara's excellent Doors of Perception newsletter]"Connecting on a spiritual level with one's deity or deities of choice can be difficult and time-consuming. That is, unless you're a subscriber to BPL Mobile, in which case you can send an SMS puja (prayer) to your provider and have prayers recited for you at a popular Bombay temple during the annual Ganesh Chaturthi festival". Ashlee Vance of The Standard reports "that for just 51 rupees ($1.10) subscribers can avoid the hassle... from : paulmiller 9th September 2003
- News Flash London's first Flash Mob is going to take place on Thursday... find out more here. from : paulmiller 5th August 2003
- Smart mobs and journalism Howard Rheingold predicts that control of the new 'mediaspace' represented by the collision of next generation mobiles and blogging is up for grabs. This represents an opportunity to tip balance in favour of a democratised, peer-to-peer form of media. However, he reckons, the thing to watch is not the technology - which is already cheap and accessible - but whether the practice of journalism itself can become a distributed activity.OJR article: Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for?a New Era in... from : alistairdavidson 11th July 2003
- Mobilisation The launch of Mobilisation last night was a great success. I'll try and post a real player video of James Harkin's speech when I can... in the meantime he had a bit in the Guardian today. from : paulmiller 26th June 2003
- U R FIRED :( With the announcement that personal injury claims firm The Accident Group has gone into administration comes this extra tidbit: according to BBC News Online, 2500 staff have been sacked by text message. Not exactly exemplary use of technology to improve communication... from : alistairdavidson 30th May 2003
- I am a Camera Eat your heart out John Simpson, Kate Adie and all the rest. Thanks to the new generation of wireless technologies the age of the amateur telejournalist is upon us. She captures the footage you don't normally see on the BBC or CNN and she broadcasts it in real-time via the web. The possibilities for politics are tantalising (remember that home video of Rodney King being beaten up by the LAPD? A butterfly in Brazil flaps its wings....) Read more on peer-to-peer reporting here from : alistairdavidson 17th April 2003
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